The Watchman On The Wall

Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Verse 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Monday, April 30, 2012

The Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.
Friends & Patriots,
Very shortly I am going to change the name of my blog from GrassrootConservative.blogspot.com to Watchman-Report I think this better explains who and what I am. The log-on would remain the same via http://www.grassrootconservative.blogspot.com/.
As you know I consider myself your watchman on the wall trying to warn about current events that are linked to Biblical prophecy.
Biblical writers often juxtaposed the role of the watchman and the work of the prophet. Through long, dark hours of slavery and exile, stubbornness and despair, the prophets kept watch, calling out injustices, calling forth awareness, peace, and repentance.
Jeremiah cried out, "This is what the LORD says: Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, 'We will not walk in it.' I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But you said, 'We will not listen.'"
Isaiah expanded the imagery of the sentinel's watch even further, suggesting watchful eyes throughout the kingdom of God, servants who hold vigil day and night, watching for light even when presently surrounded by darkness. "Listen! Your sentinels lift up their voices, together they sing for joy; for in plain sight they see the return of the Lord to Zion."(1)

An old man in Jerusalem named Simeon was one such sentinel. All that is known of him is that he was righteous and devout, studied the Bible at the Temple and looked forward to the consolation of his broken land. The Lord promised him he would see his Messiah. Led by the Spirit one day, he went to the temple to offer the customary sacrifice, when he noticed an infant in the arms of a young woman named Mary. Taking the baby in his arms, he began to sing:

"Master, now you are dismissing your servant in peace,

according to your word;

for my eyes have seen your salvation,

which you have prepared in the presence of all peoples,

a light for revelation to the Gentiles

and for glory to your people Israel."(2)

A watchman who had kept vigil through long years of darkness, Simeon saw the infant Christ in plain sight and used the language of a slave who had been freed. There is a sense of immediacy and relief, as if the light of morning has finally arrived after years of shadow, and he is at last free to leave his post.

Epiphany, the historical Christian feast day celebrates the arrival of the magi to the birthplace of Jesus, and it tells a similar story. Matthew describes a vigilant scene not unlike that of Simeon at the temple or sentinels on the city wall. Jewish Astronomers from the east followed a lone star through a great expanse of darkness and across the desert to come upon a new born king. Their watchful journey took years. An evil man Satan via Herod tried to trick the Magi but God thwarted the evil plan to murder Yeshua even though Herod murdered all infant boys throughout Bethlehem who were two years old or less. It was a solitary journey, disregarded by the masses and wrought with difficulty. But the light was real. " Nations shall come to your light," sang the prophet of this child, "and kings to the brightness of your dawn" (Isaiah 60:3).
We are still a world straining in the dark, waiting for light. Like those who first journeyed to set their eyes on the child born to die, we move through long nights, often finding ourselves out of place, in the dark, and straining to see more. The Christian story is a declaration that Christ can transform this watching and waiting, our lives and our deaths, bringing light where death stings, tears discourage, and darkness haunts. "I wait for the Lord," sang the psalmist, "my soul waits, and in his word I hope; my soul waits for the Lord, more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning." The night is surely long, but the light – Jesus Christ Yeshua HaMaschiach is real!
Alan

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Patriots,
Many of you may remember seeing this clip Even though this clip appears to be almost two years old, it is still relevant and is one of the best I have heard. I Recommend that you take a few minutes to listen to this clip form beginning to end.http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=XNUc8nuo7HI
Alan

Below is an interesting questionnaire for Palestinian Advocates
If you are so sure "Palestine, the country, goes back through most of recorded history," I expect you to be able to answer basic questions about that country of Palestine:
1. When was it founded and by whom?
2. What were its borders?
3. What was its capital?
4. What were its major cities?
5. What constituted the basis of its economy?
6. What was its form of government?
7. Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8. Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
9. What was the language of the country of Palestine?
10. What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine?
11. What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese Yuan on that date.
12. and, finally, since there is no such country today, what caused its demise and when did it occur?
You are lamenting the "low sinking" of a "once proud" nation.
Please tell me, when exactly was that "nation" proud and what was it so proud of?
Here is the least sarcastic question of all: If the people that are mistakenly called “Palestinians" are anything but generic Arabs collected from all over -- or throw outs of -- the Arab world, if they really have a genuine ethnic identity that gives them right for self-determination, why did they never try to become independent until Arabs suffered their devastating defeat in the Six Day War?
The truth: these people are Illegal squatters on the land in the Country of Israel.
The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible mentions "Palestina", not Philistia as the Romans called the region. Check your Bible, the verses are below and see if it reads "Palestina." I believe the KJV is the correct scripture because the manuscripts that the KJV is based upon came out of Antioch. Antioch was known for exactly recording the "word" (Bible) of God. The first mention of Palestina is in Exodus. I think if your Bible says Philistia or something else it is wrong because your Bible's the manuscripts came from Alexandria known for its pursuit of philosophy based on human reason and wisdom and not God’s word.
Now, Palestine never existed and there never was a Palestinian people or a Palestinian culture. God prophesies in the Old Testament verses below when He says "Palestina" or Palestine will be destroyed. Also the scripture strangely mentions smoke from the north. I do not know what to make of that. So, all the way back to Moses, God knew (actually at the creation) that a future state of Palestine would exist and be destroyed.
The first thing we must do is to identify who the real Palestinians are. Neither they nor Palestine are mentioned in the Koran. Why?
A little lesson in history: The etymology of the word "Palestinian" in English is derived from the Old French word "Philistin," from Late Latin it is "Philistinus," and from Late Greek, "Philistinoi." They were not an Arab or a Semitic people, but were more closely related to the ancient Greeks and originated in the Aegean region of Asia Minor. Any student of the Bible knows that the Philistines were enemies of Israel.
In the history of the Philistines is also the story of the young Hebrew man, David, son of Jesse, who was incensed that a Philistine warrior was allowed to challenge the one true God. The enemy of Israel had advanced to the Valley of Elah and there challenged the Israelites. They produced a gigantic champion, Goliath of Gath. David volunteered to fight the giant and went out to face him with his slingshot and five smooth stones he had retrieved from a dry river bed. He slipped one of the stones into his sling and smote the Philistine on the forehead. He used the giant's own sword to behead him. Jehovah God gave David the courage and skills not only to face Israel's enemy, but to kill the challenger. The Israelites pursued the Philistines all the way to the city of Ekron.
The Philistines were ultimately defeated, absorbed into the Babylonian/Persian Empire, and by the late fifth century BC, had disappeared.
In 135 BC, Simon bar Kokhba, a Jew, proclaimed himself Prince of Israel, Son of the Star, the Messiah, and led a revolt against the Romans. The Roman governor and two legions of soldiers were defeated. Bar Kokhba controlled the state of Israel from the Fort of Herodium just south of Jerusalem. His coins were inscribed, "Year one--the redemption of Israel."
The Roman emperor, Hadrian, in response razed 985 villages and killed almost 600,000 Jews. Hadrian wiped Jerusalem and Judea off the map and deliberately renamed the area Palaestinia after the Jews' ancient enemy, the Philistines. SO, SPREAD THE WORD. WANTED: NON-ARAB PHILISTINES
As soon as all these peace-loving nations can prove that Philistines are back, then let's persuade the Arab League to absorb them as refugees the way Israel did with the Jews and all nations have done. Let them then turn over the territories that have become a nightmare for the Jewish people to the Philistines. You can be certain of one thing: there will probably be some pretty large dudes in the bunch. Goliath was a Philistine, and from what I know about him, he was not what you would call a "happy camper." I expect life will not be too pleasant for mythological Palestinians when they meet the original Philistines.
To fulfill the reality of a Palestinian state, the world must demand that the vast majority of the land occupied by Arabs in Judea and Samaria be returned to Israel. The people that call themselves "Palestinians" must return to the Arab lands from which they came. Then true Palestinians, the proven descendants of the Philistines, could have their land. Since there are none to be found on this planet, perhaps the next Mars rover will find them.
Prior to the 1948 rebirth of Israel, people who used the word “Palestinians,” were referring to Jews, not Arabs. The Jews living in “Palestine,” then under the control of the British, called themselves “Palestinians.” The Jewish newspaper now called the Jerusalem Post was then called the “Palestine Post.”
Sometime after the 1967 Six-Day War when Israel captured Judea, Samaria and East Jerusalem from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization began his terrorist war against Israel literally inventing a new national identity of Arab “Palestinians” as a pretext for doing so.
1. There is no language known as Palestinian.
2. There is no distinct Palestinian culture.
3. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Therefore there are no historic Palestinians. It’s a political fantasy sold to the world by those opposed to a Jewish national homeland called Israel. Good Luck if you were born in Jerusalem
In a legal brief filed with the US Supreme Court, Hillary Clinton has urged the justices not to call Jerusalem part of Israel. At issue is the birthplace designation on passports given to US citizens born in Israel. The Administration's policy is to require those born in the Jewish capital to have their place of birth listed as Jerusalem rather than Israel. This rule applies to no other capital city on earth; its only purpose is to refuse to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of the Jewish state.
The Supreme Court has agreed to take up the case of nine-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky, who was born in Jerusalem in 2002. His parents want his birthplace listed as Israel. Congress passed a law in 2004 requiring Israel be listed as the place of birth to those born in Jerusalem at their request, but the State Department headed by Hillary Clinton has refused. Truly there are powerful forces within our own government determined to divide the Holy City of Jerusalem.Obama's Israeli Foreign Policy
I believe Obama & his administration are making the biggest foreign policy mistake in U.S. history by not supporting Israel. In fact, I would say the administration & the Democratic (now called the Communist Party by many Americans) Party overall are anti-Semitic.
Numerous American leaders over the decades have expressed their perception that Israel and the USA have a “special relationship,” that Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies, and that American aid to Israel is money well spent. Most recently, these sentiments were articulated by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, Senator Harry Reid, Vice President Joe Biden, and President Barack Obama. They continue to be in favor of the continued American financial support for Israel, amounting to about $3,000,000,000 per year in recent years.
Yet critics of Israel complain that the USA gives too much money to Israel and that the “special relationship” is a liability for the USA. These critics support their assessments with wildly exaggerated claims regarding the size of US aid to Israel, with accusations that Israel is bankrupting the USA, and with the warning that US money encourages Israeli obduracy, stokes the Israel-Arab conflict and generates anti-American sentiment in Muslim countries. In short, they blame Israel for America’s difficulties abroad.
Enemies of both the USA and Israel exploit American support for Israel to foment anti-American sentiment. It is a grave strategic error by Americans to place credence in such anti-Israel propaganda.
Since US support is of vital importance to Israel’s security, an examination of these critics’ claims seems worthwhile.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. Democracies are an endangered species, so they can be expected to support one another and to have mutually beneficial relationships stronger than those between democracies and totalitarian states.
The U.S.–Israel “special relationship” grows in part from the resonance of a common Bible and a host of Judeo-Christian features.
As western democracies, Israel and the USA have shared strategic interests, shared civic and political values, and the personal, cultural, and political bonds that exist naturally between free peoples. The supreme commander of NATO operations in Europe and head of the U.S. European Command (EUCOM), General John Craddock, speaking before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee in 2007, called Israel a “model state” and America’s closest ally in the Middle East. He noted that Israel consistently and directly supports U.S. interests and U.S. policy in the region.
Israel is among the few countries in the world, and the only Middle Eastern state, to consistently stand alongside the United States on strategic issues in the UN and in other venues for international cooperation. Israel votes with the USA in the UN about 94% of the time. No other nation holds that record.
But amicable support alone cannot justify tens of billions of taxpayer dollars in US aid to Israel. Happily, the USA has two very strong reasons to conclude that money to Israel is an investment for which the American people get a truly excellent return.
First, there is a financial reciprocity in this “special relationship” quite unlike any other that the USA has. Much, and in many years most, of the money that the USA gives Israel has been used by Israel to purchase goods and services, both military and civilian, from the USA, so that American aid money is recycled back into the American economy. Nearly 90% of US aid to Israel is military, and Israel spends about 75% of that buying U.S. goods. This aid has been described as an indirect American subsidy to U.S. arms manufacturers.
But, second, there is more to this issue than merely Israel’s using American money to help the US economy. Israel is a very powerful military ally as well. The security cooperation between Israel and the United States is vast, and Israel has consistently been a major security asset to the United States, an asset upon which America can
In the field of military intelligence Israel is arguably the world’s leading expert in collecting intelligence on terrorist groups and in counter-terrorism. It provides intelligence and know-how to the U.S. According to Maj. Gen. George J. Keegan Jr., former head of U.S. Air Force intelligence, America’s military defense capability “owes more to the Israeli intelligence input than it does to any single source of intelligence,” the worth of which input, he estimated, exceeds “five CIAs.” He further stated that between 1974 and 1990, Israel received $18.3 billion in U.S. military grants. During the same period Israel provided the U.S. with $50-$80 billion in intelligen¬ce, research and developmen¬t savings, and Soviet weapons systems captured and transferre¬d to the U.S. Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies are among the world’s premier humint intelligence collectors.
Israeli and American intelligence agencies continuously exchange information, analyses, and operational experience in counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and its Israeli counterpart share technical know-how in defending against terrorist attacks, countering unconventional weapons, cyber-threats, combating the drug trade. On the battlefield, Israeli armaments protect Bradley and Stryker units from rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), while Israeli-made drones and reconnaissance devices allow for safe surveillance of hostile territory. U.S. fighter aircraft and helicopters incorporate Israeli concepts and components, as do modern-class U.S. warships. The IDF has furnished U.S. forces with its expertise in the detection and neutralization of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the largest cause of American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Alexander Haig described Israel as “the largest US aircraft carrier, which does not require even one US soldier, cannot be sunk, is the most cost-effective and battle-tested platform. It is located in a region which is critical to vital US interests. If there would not be an Israel, the US would have to deploy real aircraft carriers, along with tens of thousands of US soldiers, which would cost tens of billions of dollars annually, dragging the US unnecessarily into local, regional and global conflicts.”
The strength of the Russian Navy and declining political reliability of Prime Minister Erdogan’s anti-American and anti-Israeli regime in Turkey has increased the importance of Israeli cooperation in this vital area…. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has had extensive combat experience over the Mediterranean and could play a dominant role in the Eastern Med. A classified U.S. Navy study, not available to the public, reportedly has concluded that IAF alone could destroy the entire Soviet Fleet in the eastern Mediterranean. By one estimate, Israel could launch 20 times as many air attack sorties as an aircraft carrier air wing or 12 times as many air combat sorties. Even if only 10 percent of the Israeli Air Force were committed to sea control missions, Israel could project more air power than could a U.S. carrier in the eastern Mediterranean. The small Israeli Navy, meanwhile, is a modern force comprised of fast missile boats that pack considerable punch. .… Even if Israel sits out a military conflict Jerusalem could make a major difference in the outcome by permitting U.S. warplanes to use Israeli air bases.”
In short, support for Israel has been a very profitable investment for the USA. Israel is an ideal ally for America in the Middle East. Haifa is one of the safest and most hospitable ports for the 6th Fleet, a dependable base for pre-positioning emergency military stores for deployment in neighboring countries, and a base for close-by sophisticated medical services. In contrast, the problems the United States faces in the Persian Gulf today stem from the fact that it does not have an Israel equivalent there. Absent a strong, loyal, and dependable ally in the region, the United States has had to deploy, redeploy, and redeploy again, at a cost that easily exceeds a trillion dollars. Repeated U.S. administrations came to power predisposed to associate with the Arab world and to disassociate from Israel; but in the end, most came to acknowledge the worth of Israel as a steadfast ally in a volatile region. From Lyndon Johnson to George Bush II most U.S. Presidents have come to see that US support for Israel has been the most cost-effective national security investment for America since World War II and the Marshal Plan.
In summary, Israel’s enemies are America’s enemies. Israel fights the same Islamo-fascist terrorism that brought down our WTC, blew up a large chunk of the Pentagon, blew a huge hole in the USS Cole, killed more than 3,000 innocent American civilians, and cost our economy as yet unascertained billions of dollars. Israeli-American strategic cooperation is not a given, it is not automatic, it is not a knee-jerk reaction to shared values, and it is not a panacea; but without it the world would be a much more dangerous place. Israel helps keep America safe. It is an incredible bargain.
Jehovah Shalom
Alan

Drew Zahn is a former pastor who cut his editing teeth as a member of the award-winning staff of Leadership, Christianity Today's professional journal for church leaders. He is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching.
The Communist Party USA isn’t always happy with the Democrats, but in the 2012 election, its chairman says, the best bet for advancing the Party’s goals is to back Barack Obama.
In a report called “Defeating the Rightwing on the Road to Socialism” delivered to the CPUSA annual conference, Party Chairman Sam Webb moved to squash sentiments that disgruntled communists should jump off the Democrat ship and back a third-party candidate for president.
“Some think the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans. Others go further and say that the Democrats are worse because they create popular illusions that change is possible within the two-party system,” Webb said. “And finally there are advocates of running a third-party presidential candidate in this election.
“I can understand these sentiments, but only up to a point,” he said. “Like it or not, millions go to the polls in spite of their misgivings … and the Democratic Party is the vehicle of reform for tens of millions, the majority of whom are working and oppressed people.”
Therefore, Webb said, communists need to join other left-leaning allies in ensuring Republicans are defeated in November.
“A third-party presidential candidate would only help the extreme right, as well as isolate the left from the broader movement,” Webb strategized. “Only a closer alliance of a surging labor movement and its strategic allies – the African American people, Latino people, and other peoples of color, women and youth – have the wherewithal to turn back this corporate counterattack, while at the same time enact progressive measures.”
Other speakers at the conference threw their support behind Obama even more succinctly, including Executive Vice Chair of CPUSA Jarvis Tyner.
“These right-wing nut jobs need to understand, we are not going back,” Tyner said. “If Obama is elected, of course there will be a struggle; a struggle that the democratic forces could win, I would say. If he is defeated, the movement will suffer a big setback and the country will be pushed backwards.”
According to a report in CPUSA’s news source People’s World, Vice Chair Juan Lopez warned conference attendees that Republicans would use racism as a “powerful ideological weapon” to defeat Obama.
“There is no room for cynicism,” Lopez stressed, “if we expect to win against Republicans who are exhibiting fascist tendencies. The defeat of Obama would be a dangerous setback on every front of struggle, especially against racism and for equality for women. It would show that white people were not ready for an African American president, after all.”
Joelle Fishman, chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, further contrasted Obama and his “values … upholding the contribution of work and those who do it,” and Mitt Romney, who allegedly values “individualism and corporate greed.”
“The poll shows there is a lot of work to be done,” Fishman trumpeted, “but with a strong platform for jobs and fair taxes, Obama and Democrats can win voters in swing districts, including white voters who supported the tea party in 2010.”
Fishman and Webb each remarked on labor-union plans to put huge ground forces in play for the 2012 election and encouraged fellow communists to join, rather than fight, the efforts.
“Labor will throw itself into the campaign to elect Democrats, moderate as well as progressive,” Webb told the conference.
“The AFL-CIO grass roots crusade will engage 400,000 members to canvass their co-workers and neighbors with a unity message for Obama. SEIU will mobilize another 200,000 members with the same goal,” Fishman claimed. “Strengthening and enlarging union, civil rights, community and youth organizations during this election will lay the groundwork for year-round organizing and for future elections in which candidates who come out of the movements, including the Communist Party, run for office.”

Friday, April 27, 2012

The Plain of Meggido - Napoleon called it the perfect battlefield (To me it resembles Waterloo)

God says in Revelation 14:8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
There it is—as crystal clear as it can be. The Revelation 14:8 prophecy plainly predicts the future fall of Babylon.
Knowing that this prophecy about the future fall of Babylon exists, we simply must ask ourselves if the prophesied fall of Babylon has been fulfilled.
There is prophetic evidence in abundance that proclaims that the time for the fulfillment of the ancient prophecy has arrived. But let’s see what the scriptures actually say.
Revelation 16:16 announces the beginning of the Battle of Armageddon: “And he (God) gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.”
The next three verses record the fall of Babylon the Great.
Verse 17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.
Verse 18 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.
Verse 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
This passage clearly teaches us that the destruction of Babylon will take place at the time of the Battle of Armageddon.
We know from the Bible that the Battle of Armageddon occurs at the end of the Great Tribulation, after the reign of the Antichrist and after the mark of the beast.
Now let’s look at another Babylon prophecy.
The entire ministry of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah was devoted to prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem and the carrying away of Israel into Babylonian captivity. He also prophesied the return of Israel to Jerusalem after 70 years and Jeremiah foretold the ultimate destruction of Babylon.
The prophecy against Babylon is found in Jeremiah 50:1-23.
“The word that the LORD spake against Babylon and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah the prophet. Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken…For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein… Because of the wrath of the LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.”
Verses 17 and 18 establish for certain when this destruction of Babylon was to occur:
“Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones. Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.”
The above scriptures teach us that this particular prophesied destruction of Babylon would occur during the era of the Babylonian empire of Nebuchadnezzar.
Furthermore, verses 39-40 declared that Babylon would never again be inhabited. “Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands will dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever…”
The prophecy of Jeremiah clearly stated that Babylon would be destroyed, never to be inhabited again. Yet the book of Revelation prophesies the destruction of Babylon at the time of Armageddon. How do we reconcile what appears to be a biblical contradiction?
I want to emphasize I am not the final authority on these prophecies. I am merely trying to deliver to you the Biblical evidence as best I can. We are not babes on milk here friends, this is heavy duty Biblical material and a very difficult concept.
Let’s review what we have discussed so far. The prophecy of Jeremiah clearly stated that Babylon would be destroyed, never to be inhabited again. Yet the book of Revelation prophesies the destruction of Babylon at the time of Armageddon. We have been searching for an explanation to this conundrum.
We must keep in mind that God reveals to us his prophetic plan in due time. For example, most of the people living in 1800 and before could not understand the future rebirth of Israel in 1948 because God had not yet provided them with the clues to his prophetic plan. At that point 1800 and before it appeared that the Jewish people would be scattered to the four winds forever and the Jews had no Zionist aspirations.
Scholars differ on what Mystery Babylon is. At this point in time I do not totally agree with the the traditional view I will present to you today, I do know that Mystery Babylon is satanic in nature. Perhaps God hasn’t revealed the full picture of his prophetic plan yet. Let’s look at an interesting piece of scripture.
In Nahum 3:4 God says Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
God is describing multiple satanic whores. Could these be false churches and secret satanic societies who sell witchcraft to nations and families? That could be a distinct possibility. Remember Chapter 6 of Ephesians.
Verse 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Verse 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Perhaps we will find an answer to our conundrum by looking at the difference between physical Babylon and Mystery Babylon. I think it is important to keep in mind that almost from the beginning the Bible has been a tale of two cities. Jerusalem is the city of God while Babylon has always been the city of man built by Nimrod the “rebel”. Both cities disappeared from the world stage for many centuries. Then Jerusalem came roaring back. The Bible says the same will be true of Babylon.
The physical city of Babylon was originally built by Nimrod after the great flood. It was located on the Euphrates River, about 55 miles south of where Baghdad, Iraq is today. The name Babylon came from the Tower of Babel (man’s tower to human pride, secularism & utopianism) that was constructed there.
Babylon became a large city of global prominence around 1728 B.C. during the reign of Hammurabi. The glory years of Babylon were achieved under Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.). The city declined during the reign of Belshazzar, and came to ruin when Xerxes, the Persian king, destroyed it in 478 B.C.
Thus, Jeremiah’s prophesied destruction of Babylon was accomplished, and, just as the prophecy said, it has never been inhabited to this day. In fact, Alexander the Great planned to make Babylon the capitol of his world empire and issued 500K rations to his army to begin rebuilding and modernizing mighty Babylon. Alexander’s plans never came to fruition and he died prematurely in 2 week from a mysterious illness. Alexander’s empire was split among his 4 generals: Cassander, Lysimachus, Ptolemy and Seleucus. Saddam Hussein launched a massive project to rebuild Babylon in the 1980’s, but the effort was stymied by the Iranian war and was not resumed. Saddam and his two sons died prematurely like Alexander.
But if Babylon is never to be rebuilt, why are two entire chapters of the book of Revelation devoted to the destruction of Babylon? And why is the destruction of Babylon clearly described as occurring at the time of Armageddon?
The Babylon described in Revelation is called “Mystery Babylon.” The prophecy of Mystery Babylon is found in Revelation 17:3-5.
“So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”
Who is this Mystery Babylon?
A mystery is something secret or hidden— a thing that some understand while others do not. In Revelation 17, there are several clues given to the identity of Mystery Babylon.
Let’s review what we have discussed so far. We have learned that the prophecy of Jeremiah clearly stated that Babylon would be destroyed, never to be inhabited again. Yet the book of Revelation prophesies the destruction of Babylon at the time of Armageddon. We have been searching for an explanation to this conundrum. We learned that In Revelation 17, there are 4 clues to look at.
1—Mystery Babylon is a city
Notice in the above prophecy that a woman is used to symbolize Mystery Babylon. Verse 18 of the chapter tells us that the woman is a city. “And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.”
2—Mystery Babylon presides over a vast international system
In verse 1, we are told that the woman sits on many waters. Verse 15 explains the meaning of the waters. “And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.”
3—Mystery Babylon’s city sits on 7 hills
In verse 3, we are told that the woman rides on a beast with 7 heads. Verse 9 reveals the meaning of the heads. “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.”
Remember, we’ve already learned that the woman is a city. This passage tells us that the city sits on seven mountains. There is a city on earth that is known as “The City of Seven Hills.” It’s the city of Rome.
But is Rome the headquarters for an international power that rules over “peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues?”
The Vatican rules over one billion Roman Catholics worldwide. Remember, this prophecy was written by God via John long before the Catholic Church existed and long before the Vatican became her headquarters.
4—The woman is clothed in purple and red
Revelation 17:4 “And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:”
There are two ruling bodies in the Roman Catholic Church: The College of Cardinals and the College of Bishops and Archbishops. Cardinals wear red, while Bishops and Archbishops wear purple.”
One other factor should be understood. In Revelation 17, God chose to use a woman—a whore—to symbolize Mystery Babylon.
God uses a virgin bride to represent His true church for example in II Corinthians 11:2 God says, “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.” and He uses a harlot to represent a false church— as he did in Revelation 17-1.
Bible scholars like Hal Lindsey and others believe that Mystery Babylon is centered in Rome, the home of the Roman Catholic Church, a false religion. Some people believe Lindsey’s view was prejudiced by the Cold War and the RCC’s persecution of the saints & Jews during its previous history. Some Biblical scholars believe the Roman Catholic Church is this false religious system that has deceived the people of the world that will be destroyed at the time of Armageddon. This may be the correct view.
However, some people such as Joel Richardson and Bill Wilson believe that this focus is wrong. If we look at the world from God’s viewpoint in the Bible and that of his chosen people the focus is Jerusalem not Rome. I want to make it clear the Roman Catholic Church & the Vatican do play important roles in the End Times.
Joel Richardson believes Mystery Babylon is Mecca & Saudi Arabia as characterized in Revelation 17.
Let's look at Joel Richardson’s & Bill Wilson's End Times view.
Americans tend to view Bible prophecy with American centricity. We think the world revolves around us and the USA. However, the Bible is Middle East centric and revolves around Jerusalem, Israel, and the Middle East.
Joel Richardson believes the spirit of Islam is rising against the Jewish people, Israel and Christianity. He also believes Mystery Babylon is the spiritual and economic system that will encompass the greatest false religion the world will ever know.
In Rev 17:1 God says: And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. Waters means a multitude of people - Islam has over a billion adherents worldwide.
Rev 17:18 says: And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Joel believes this is the anti-christ’s throne in Jerusalem during the Great Trib.
In verse 3, we are told that the woman rides on a beast with 7 heads. Verse 9 reveals the meaning of the heads. “And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” Joel Richardson believes mountains represent kingdoms and the Islamic caliphate will be the next great global empire, the greatest anti-semitic kingdom of all time.
Jesus said in Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (who so readeth, let him understand:) The anti-christ commits the abomination in Jerusalem not in Rome.
Is Mecca, Saudi Arabia the Mystery Babylon characterized in Revelation 17?
Joel believes Mystery Babylon sits in a wilderness (the desert) Rev 17:3 says: So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Also consider Jeremiah 9:26 Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. All of these peoples lived in the wilderness or desert.
The kingdom of the anti-christ is drunk on the blood of the saints. Islam is killing Christians worldwide and is on course to eradicate Christianity from North Africa, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia and the Levant.
God says in Rev 17:2 The kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and have been made drunk with the wine or (oil) of her fornication. Every leader of every major nation except Iran has bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, and the world is addicted to her oil.
Rev 19:2 says: For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
The great whore is the 12th Imam, the Islamic anti-christ who corrupts the earth with fornication. Fornication is a idolatry, not the religion of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The greatest false religion today is Islam and its center is Saudi Arabia. Its primary export is not oil but Islam and the Koran. All the presidents from Carter to Obama have personally rec’d tens of millions of dollars from the Saudis. Clinton alone rec’d $30 million. Prince Al Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia gave Harvard & Georgetown $20 million. So is it any wonder our universities are graduating pro-Islamists and are populated with Muslim professors?
Finally, below are the similarities between the Antichrist (AC) and 12th Imam
1 Both Arise out of global chaos
2 Both kill Jews & Christians
3 Both rule for 7 years
4 Both make a false peace with Israel
5 Both unite the world in a global caliphate
6 Both behead opponents - the Koran says “Strike the neck of the infidel”
7 Tradition (the Hadith) says Muslims will welcome the beast
8 Tradition says Muslims want the mark of the Beast

9 Both Establish a global seat on the Temple Mount
Remember the most important thing is that Lord is in control, he has his great prophetic plan and if you are saved your Rapture and eternal life in heaven is guaranteed.

Each week on God's (and my) radio program I feature a song. This Sunday's song is Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin. below my script (in yellow) is information about Led Zeppelin. I did not know this information until Friday night the 27th, in fact I knew nothing about the musicians in Led Zeppelin and could only name one on Thursday. I was shocked by the information in the second link below, especially Robert Plant's linkage to Alister Crowley an infamous satanist. We taped the radio program yesterday on Thursday the 26th.
First my script which is in yellow: Our Theme song is Stairway to Heaven by Led Zepplin. This song has some cryptic occult lyrics. The first line says “there’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold and she buying a stairway to heaven.” Well, we do not have purchase a stairway to heaven Yeshua did it all for us with his perfect blood sacrifice on the cross. Another line says there’s a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure. In Daniel Chap 5 Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall for Belshazzar and told him God had numbered his kingdom, and finished it. Belshazzar was weighed in the balance and found wanting. Daniel told him his kingdom was going to be given to the Medes and Persians. That night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was slain and Darius the Mede took Belshazzar’s kingdom. Another line says there’s a feeling I get when I look to the west and my spirit is crying for leaving. Well, the Lord travels from East to West and he will come from the East at the second coming. Further in the song the lyrics read and its whispered that soon if we all call the tune that the piper will lead us to reason. And a new day will dawn for those who stand long and the forest will echo with laughter. To me this is a clear reference to the ultimate piper the anti-christ and the false 3 ½ year utopia he will bring to mankind on earth. Another line says if there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now, it just a spring clean for the May Queen. According to British folklore, the May Queen was put to death once the festivities were over. May Day rituals are associated with the occult and human sacrifice are still popularized in our culture today. The song continues Dear lady can you hear the wind blow and did you know your stairway lies on the whispering wind and as we wind down the road our shadow taller than our soul. I wholeheartedly disagree with Zepplin when we are saved by Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit dwells inside our soul, our shadow is meaningless. The song continues there walks a lady we all know who shines white light and wants to know how everything still turns to gold and if you listen very hard the tune will come to you at last when all are one and one is all. The lady to me to be a clear refefrence to Mystery Babylon and satan’s final attempt to unite the human race.
On Friday my producer sent me the following links about Led Zeppelin.
First, this is what Wikipedia said. The first attempts at lyrics, written by Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant next to an evening log fire at Headley Grange, were partly spontaneously improvised and Page claimed, "a huge percentage of the lyrics were written there and then".[11] Jimmy Page was strumming the chords and Robert Plant had a pencil and paper. Plant later said that suddenly,My hand was writing out the words, 'There's a lady is sure [sic], all that glitters is gold, and she's buying a stairway to heaven'. I just sat there and looked at them and almost leapt out of my seat." Plant's own explanation of the lyrics was that it "was some cynical aside about a woman getting everything she wanted all the time without giving back any thought or consideration. The first line begins with that cynical sweep of the hand ... and it softened up after that.[14]
(It sounds like Plant was channeling demonic spirits and that he definitely was into the occult.) The lyrics of the song reflected Plant's current reading. The singer had been poring over the works of the British antiquarian Lewis Spence, and later cited Spence's Magic Arts in Celtic Britain as one of the sources for the lyrics to the song.[9]http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/devils_music.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Johnson
Robert Johnson was a major influence in RocknRoll and specifically on Eric Clapton.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Eph 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Steve Vaus is a saved man because of his father & Billy Graham
Friends,
Steve Vaus was recently a guest on my radio program. The link below is from a 1958 Billy Graham Crusade. Jim Vaus, Steve's father, briefly spoke at that Crusade. Personally, I think Jim Vaus was probably an electronic genius and his son Steve is extremely gifted musically. Steve has played at the White House and at the Grand Ole Opry. Jim served in the military and was convicted by military court-martial of misappropriating govt. property and sentenced to 10 years hard labor. President Truman pardoned him of his crime in part because Jim had developed radar guided anti-aircraft guns. These guns were able to shoot down German V-2 and other fast aircraft. He was a wire-tapper for organized crime specifically Mickey Cohen in L.A. Jim's wiretapping methods enabled the Mafia to make huge sums of money on sporting events because Jim had the results before anyone else in the country. This gave a definite, huge monetary edge to the Mafia in the bookmaking and betting rackets. I think you will enjoy the video below. Steve is coming to Cincinnati in June and we are looking for a venue for Steve's concert if anyone knows of venue please let me know.
Where are you going when you die - every soul is eternal!
I would like to meet Jim Vaus, so know where I am going - heaven. Thank you Yeshua HaMaschiachhttp://www.kjv-1611av.com/Flyer.htmhttp://mediasuite.multicastmedia.com/player.php?video_uuid=xh5z9dyr&v=xh5z9dyr&aid=307717&preview=true
God Bless
Al

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Patriots,
On Saturday a week ago the P5+1 the U.S., Great Britain, France, Russia, and China plus Germany) met with Iran in Istanbul for a “first round” of nuclear talks. By all accounts, it was a “round” with no accomplishment except that the parties agreed to reconvene for another “round” in Baghdad on May 23. Iran once again refused to give up or down grade its nuclear program.

Some, though, were indeed happy with the meeting’s outcome. One was EU foreign policy chief, the anti-semite, Catherine Ashton—who not long ago made waves when she reacted to the Toulouse terror by equating the Israeli army with mass murderers. Ashton called Saturday’s talks “constructive and useful” and said: “We expect that subsequent meetings will lead to concrete steps toward a comprehensive negotiated solution which restores international confidence in the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program.” Blah, blah, blah, Catherine give us a break.
The Iranians reacted with great satisfaction. Their chief negotiator Saeed Jalili exulted that the talks were a “positive sign” compared with “the language of threats and pressure that do not work on the Iranian people.”
The problem here is that if Washington is really serious about Iran’s nuclear ambitions, then why are we teaming up with the Europeans, Russians, and Chinese. Once again the world, Obama and Iran are stalling while the Jews are once again offered up as a scape goats to mad men. Once again the world strides blindly down another deadly path of appeasement. This is like ground hog day all over again and millions of people will die because of it.
The rift on Iran between Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu burst into the open when high-ranking Israeli officials directly accused the president of reneging on the US-Israeli understandings reached ahead of the Istanbul talks.
The Israelis charged, that the US and Iran had reached secret agreements in clandestine bilateral talks conducted in Paris and Vienna. Netanyahu said the P5+1 agreement to hold more talks in Baghdad next month had given Tehran a "freebie" of five more weeks to continue enriching uranium without restrictions. The prime minister aimed his comments directly at Obama.
Obama responded sharply: "The notion that somehow we've given something away or a `freebie' would indicate Iran has gotten something. In fact, they've got some of the toughest sanctions that they're going to be facing coming up in just a few months. Obama forgot to add that the U.S. has exempted several nations from participating in the Iranian boycott.
The Israelis accuse Obama of double dealing. American and Israeli officials preceded the Istanbul talks with an understanding for the US to put before Iran agreed demands & concessions: Iran would be allowed to keep 1,000 centrifuges for the low-level enrichment of uranium up to 3.5 % purity, This is the first time Israel had accepted the principle of Iran enriching uranium.
It was also agreed between Washington and Jerusalem that Iran would not be permitted to keep 20% enriched uranium, which is one short step from weaponized uranium.
Netanyahu believes he is being misled by Obama & the west.
Israeli official sources suspect that in their secret contacts, the US has granted Iran far-reaching concessions on its nuclear program - more than Israel would find acceptable.
Remember what God tells us in the Bible.
Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Verse13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Alan

Today I will discuss a word of knowledge God gave me about Persia, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states. While the USA was sleeping war began in the Middle East, the Arabia peninsula & Persia. This war proves how clever Satan is. He can do things to us and we don’t even realize it until it is too late. This war began in Tunisia, then engulfed Algeria & Egypt. Then this war swallowed up Ghadaffi in Libya and now it has thrown Syria into civil war pitting Alawite Shia against Sunnis and foreign Sunni mercenaries. This week Assad massed his army in Damascus because he fears a military coup against his regime. The Syrian army is starving on the border of Israel.

• Everyone thinks the U.S. and the West supported and funded the Sunni rebels like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but in actuality it was Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Gulfies who supported and funded the Sunni rebels. The real purpose of the Arab Spring was to create a Sunni Islamist superstate to counter the threat of the Iranian Shiite Islamist superstate.
• Add nuclear weapons to the Iran-Iraq-Syria trinity and you are looking at a Sunni’s worst nightmare.
We forgot to ask ourselves a very important question. Who would hate an Iranian Shia bomb more than Israel. The answer is quite simple, the biggest and most important Sunni monarchy in the world – Saudi Arabia.
• The rise of a fanatically violent Shiite Iran has done more to destabilize the region than anything else.
• As much as Sunni Arabs prattle on about Zionist conspiracies, a few million Jews sandwiched in a narrow strip of land against the Mediterranean are no threat to them.
What keeps the Saudis, Jordanians up at night are the following:
a. a rival version of Islam – Shiism which the Sunnis suppressed since the death of the prophet and that is dedicated to proselytizing the world to Shiism
b. the disappearance of old, Sunni monarchies in the Muslim world
c. a spearhead by a non-Arab ethnic group – the Persians
d. the powerful Persian military machine
e. a rival Persian oil economy
f. A regional power – Persia as old as human history itself; It was the Persians who took on Alexander the Great and lost their great empire. Persia was creating an empire and a powerful culture while the Arabian peninsula was populated by nomadic Jewish and pagan, illiterate tribes
• The fall of Saddam put Iraq up for grabs by the Iranians and raised the prospect of a Shiite superstate
• The battle for hearts and minds threw Syria directly into Tehran’s paws.
• A Shiite super state checkmates the Sunni oil monarchies and leaves them no choice but to beg America to garrison them with troops, air bases and nuclear missiles
• Using foreign soldiers to protect themselves isn’t all that objectionable to the fat, lazy oil monarchists who already use armies of foreigners to do everything for them.
• Some of the Gulfies have competent armies, but no Muslim state trusts its own military, besides the Gulfies are just too small to counter Persia. The Persians have a long proud military tradition. The Egyptians and the Syrians picked up some good military traditions from their European colonizers but the Gulfies are no match for Iran.
• The Iranian military would clean the Gulfies clocks faster than you could say, Muhammad and they know it.
• What the Gulfies lack in military skills, they more than make up for in underhanded cunning. After all the Muslims invented assassins. If they can’t import an infidel army and they can’t build their own army, then they will follow the honorable tradition of finding a counterbalance to the enemy. The Sunnis have been nurturing the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Qaeda, other Sunni radicals and funding Al-Jazeera. Combine that with an American administration eager to win over the Muslim world by reforming American foreign policy,and one finds a debt ridden USA beholden to Saudi oil and the Gulfies.
• if Syria can be tipped into the Sunni camp, then Iran will lose its major puppet however, I do not think Iran is willing to lose Syria.
• The Sunni superstate will have a military tipped with top of the line American and Russian equipment, funded by Gulfie oil money and backed by the lunatic fanaticism of Islamist fighters.
• The Emir of Qatar is demanding that his slaves in Washington get cracking and “liberate” Syria so Syria is fit for membership in the Sunni Caliphate.
That just leaves one wild card in the equation – Israel
• The Sunnis are far more patient than the Shia. They want Israel gone, but they also recognize it as a valuable pawn in their own political games. Rather than being a disruptive influence on the region, like Iran, it’s a unifying force that gives Muslims a common enemy and a common aspiration. The Sunnis raisond'etre.
• I do not think it is just roving teams of Mossad agents who are blowing up Iranian nuclear sites, inflicting computer viruses and assassinating nuclear scientists. It is a combination of the Mek, Western operatives and Sunni funded special operating forces.
• If the Iranians believed that gangs of Israeli agents were freely roaming its streets and wiping out key personnel then heads would be rolling within Iran’s own security forces on a daily basis. That hasn’t happened yet.
• The Sunnis have a long list of people they can hire to do their Iranian dirty work. The list of suspects is long and includes: 1. domestic political opponents 2. internal political divisions 3. IRGC commanders looking for a large profit 4. ethnic minorities 6. Traitors 7. Gulfies, etc. etc.
The Saudis, Jordanians and Gulfies are playing for time with the Arab Spring. Their nuclear clock is a ticking Shia nuclear doomsday. The Sunnis want the United States to hold back any Israeli attacks until they approve.
They want to sabotage and undermine Iran long enough for a Sunni Islamist coalition to be strong enough to hold back any Iranian threats.
If Iran is to have nukes, the Gulfies & Saudis want them too and they want them in the hands of people that even Tehran’s Ayatollahs will be afraid of - the Wahhabis. The Wahhabi's view Shiites as infidels and heretics fit to be beheaded. For you see the Sunnis would have no problem pushing the nuclear button on Persia and then blaming Israel.
A nuclear stalemate between two fanatical branches of the same religion is bad but Arabs also like to compete for status in wars against fully authentic infidels like Israel and U.S. Friends & patriots we are being played for fools and we do not even realize it.
Remember what the Lord told us in Isaiah 17:1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
God says in 1 Thess 1:10 “And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.” God only promises to rescue the Church from the time of God’s wrath – The Great Trib which I believe includes all of Daniel’s 70th Week. Through out the Church Age Christians have suffered persecution, the consequences of wars, famines, economic distress and the fall of nations. In John 16:33 Jesus said things like this would happen in this world and I quote these things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. We’re not to worry about current events and the economy. I believe the rapture will contribute greatly to the demise of the United States as a world power and so it must be. No world empire lasts forever. It may or may not happen before Isaiah 17 and Psalm 83 but the demise of the USA will almost certainly precede Ezekiel 38.
Yeshua HaMashiach Sekinu
Alan

The link below is Prime Minister Netanyahu's Independence Day message.http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=e2TRvuSS7bM
Tonight at sundown, the celebration of Israel's Independence Day will begin. It was 64 years ago that David Ben-Gurion declared the rebirth of the Jewish state. Even before the ink was dry on her Declaration of Independence, Israel's Arab neighbors attacked in an attempt to drive the Jewish people from their ancient homeland. Israel had just three tanks but God miraculously delivered the tiny nation from her vastly larger enemies.
Today the same hatred and bigotry toward Israel and the Jewish people is growing in our world. Powerful forces in Tehran, Damascus, and many other Muslim cities would love nothing more than for Israel's 64th birthday to be her last. Extremist "twelvers" like Iran's President Ahmadinejad believe that a bloody war is an absolute necessity to bring about Muslim rule over the entire world.
The threat against Israel today is the most serious the Jewish state has faced since her rebirth in 1948. Today we MUST do all that we can to stand in the gap to deliver Israel from destruction.
Happy Birthday Israel
Yeshua HaMashiach Sekinu
Alan
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Friends,
Reports surfaced from Iran yesterday that the Oil Ministry and the Kharg Island refinery (Iran's major export hub) had both suffered an attack from a computer virus like the Stuxnet virus that slowed Iran's nuclear enrichment last year. No official confirmation of this attack has yet been given, but it appears that Iran was forced to disconnect both facilities from the Internet in order to prevent the virus from spreading.
Just as with Stuxnet, no claim of responsibility or admission of involvement has come from either Washington or Jerusalem.
Assad has massed his army in Damascus as fears of a military coup against him increased. Meanwhile the situation with the Syrian Army near the Golan continues to deteriorate.
The wretched plight of the troops manning Syrian defense divisions defending the Golan border and Mt. Hermon was clearly visible from lookout points on the Israeli side in the last two days. The regular water and food supplies to their bases, the backbone of Syria’s defense lines against Israel, were stopped and redirected to the units fighting anti-Assad rebels in other parts of the country. Large groups of armed soldiers have gone AWOL to hunt for food. For the first time in years, some have approached the border fence. They don’t ask Israeli soldiers for food, but parcels thrown across the fence vanish quickly.

According to Israelia sources, the 5th Division posted in the Golan town of Quneitra has suffered the largest number of desertions, estimated at more than 1,500 officers and men, around 15 percent of the full complement. But hundreds of dropouts occur daily from the 15th, 9th and 7th Divisions stationed in central and southern Golan.
The district commands have meanwhile lost control of the Syrian-Israeli border deployment. Military facilities are deserted with no one to guard against trespassers. Gangs, local and from across Syria’s eastern borders with Jordan and Iraq, were quick to realize the bases are unguarded and have begun stripping them of equipment and looting everything they can lay hands on. These gangs are working stealthily so as not to drawing the attention of Assad’s security forces which might stop the looting. But they are most likely being used by Assad’s Sunni enemies in Iraq and Jordan as vehicles to plant terrorist cells inside Syria for attacking military targets.
Counter-terror sources disclose this is what happened at the Golan village of Sahm al-Jolan near Quneitra Friday, April 20 when a large (100 kilo) bomb blew up as a Syrian military convoy was passing through. At least 10 soldiers were killed and 35 injured. The Syrian authorities stated that a remote-controlled explosive device blew up against a bus carrying soldiers.
It is believed that a Jordanian Sunni terrorist band was responsible. That day too, five Syrian soldiers were killed in another attack in the southern Syrian town of Karak near the flashpoint town of Deraa.
Next Year Jerusalem
God Bless

While spending under Obama has dramatically increased, the only part of the budget that the radical administration appears to be willing to cut is military spending. But cuts to military spending don’t just involve hardware, but also target human beings. The most shameful cuts involve dramatic increases to health care costs for veterans.
Tricare provides medical benefits to active duty personnel and their families, as well as veterans. With military salaries that are below average for Federal workers, those who serve and have served their country depend on it. After ten years of war and fifteen thousand wounded men and women, Tricare is a small payment on the debt that can never be repaid.
Unfortunately the Party of Treason, not satisfied with stabbing soldiers in the back while they were fighting, has refused to cease its campaign against them even after they have come home. The Center for American Progress, the leftist think-tank that has been described as the brains of the Democratic Party, has made Tricare into a target.
Time Magazine has described the Center for American Progress as “Obama’s Idea Factory” and it is clearly the source of the idea that responsible spending involves cutting health care benefits for veterans while pumping another 1.3 billion dollars into a Muslim Brotherhood run Egypt. The Tricare cuts are supposed to save 1.8 billion dollars, which we could just as easily save by eliminating aid to Egypt and Pakistan.
In 2011 the Center for American Progress issued a special paper deceptively titled, “Restoring Tricare” calling for higher premiums to “encourage responsible use” of Tricare benefits by veterans. CAP’s war on veterans was spearheaded by Lawrence Korb. Korb is a senior fellow at CAP and a senior adviser at the Center for Defense Information. Both are Soros linked organizations.
Korb has boasted that he has been pushing the kinds of drastic defense cuts since 2003 and indeed many of his proposals are part of the massive budget cuts. But while he had called for scrapping systems, he had not originally been an advocate of Tricare cuts. Instead in 2006, his defense review paper actually called for increasing Tricare costs by 1.8 billion by allowing reservists to join. This is identical to the savings from the current proposed Tricare premium hikes.
Only in the age of Obama did Korb shift from calling for Tricare increases in 2006 and 2007 to warning that rising Tricare costs were a serious problem and suggested that as a consequence of low fees, veterans “tend to use the program more heavily than civilians utilize typical HMOs.” The possibility that veterans had higher health costs because of their service was not mentioned.
But if Tricare was such a drain, then why hadn’t Korb proposed those same cuts earlier, why indeed had he called for bulking up Tricare costs only a year earlier? The shift came with Obama’s victory and it was only then that CAP began beating the drum for Tricare cuts and now it is close to getting its way.
As part of the ax, enrollees will see a 400 percent health care premium increase over the next five years leading to hundreds or thousands more in expenses for veterans who are already facing a bad economy. Veterans on a fixed income with medical problems will face the worst of it at the hands of a government that has made it clear that it doesn’t care what happens to them.
The assault on veterans includes not just those who have served in wars that the Democratic Party opposes, but also members of the Greatest Generation, Korean and Vietnam War veterans, who fought in wars overseen by Democratic Presidents, and who were promised that no matter what happened to them, their health care would be taken care of. Now that promise is being broken.
Older veterans will face an enrollment fee. Also included is a doubling of the co-pay on prescription drugs at pharmacies and a tripling of the co-pay for mail order medication. Standing in the way is Congressman Joe “You Lie” Wilson who serves as Chairman for the Subcommittee on Military Personnel, and has vowed to defy any such efforts.
But it’s not only Wilson who is standing up to the war on veterans. Senator Webb has crossed the aisle, joining Senator Ayotte and other Republicans, in opposing these measures. Mitt Romney responded to a question from the father of a wounded soldier by asking, “Why is it we go after military families. Why isn’t Obama going after government workers that are represented by the big government unions? “
The Center for American Progress’ paper advocating premium hikes noted that premiums for Federal employees had been adjusted to compensate for health care increases. What it does not note is that few bureaucrats come back with traumatic brain injuries, severed limbs or post-traumatic stress disorder. It also does not note the dramatic differences in salary.
An E1 private in the army earns less than 18,000 dollars while an entry level letter carrier at the post office earns more than twice as much. A Second Lieutenant takes in under 34,000 while a City Carrier Grade 1 Step D postal worker takes home 52,000 dollars. The greatest threat a mailman faces is angry dogs, while a soldier who navigates IEDs and bullets for a fraction of the income has his health care benefits cut when he comes home. It’s not as if he did anything important like deliver the mail.
The unspoken engine behind the war on Tricare is Obamacare. CAP’s war on Tricare began with a new administration which had made national health care into a major priority. In 2010, the Center for American Progress and Korb claimed that ObamaCare would in no way undermine Tricare. They lied. Administration officials have admitted that one reason for the increased fees is to push more veterans out of Tricare and into Obamacare.
But the increased premiums are just the beginning of a larger assault on Tricare by Obamacare. Just as veterans were first in the line of fire when the Center for American Progress and the left sabotaged the War on Terror, so too they are still in the line of fire on the homefront as CAP and the Obama Administration employ them as pawns in their national health care scheme and their continuing war on the military.
God Bless
Alan
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Sunday, April 22, 2012

When you open your pocketbooks for the next natural disaster, please keep these facts in mind:

The American Red Cross President and CEO Marsha J. Evans' salary for the year was $951,957 plus expenses.

The United Way President Brian Gallagher receives a $675,000 base salary along with numerous expense benefits.UNICEF CEO Caryl M. Stern receives $1,900,000 per year (158K) per month, plus all expenses including a ROLLS ROYCE. Less than 5 cents (4.4 cents) per donated dollar goes to the cause.The Salvation Army's Commissioner Todd Bassett receives a salary of only $13,000 per year (plus housing) for managing this $2 billion dollar organization. 96 percent of donated dollars go to the cause.The American Legion National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!• The Veterans of Foreign Wars National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!• The Disabled American Veterans National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!• The Military Order of Purple Hearts National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!• The Vietnam Veterans Association National Commander receives a $0.00 zero salary. Your donations go to help Veterans and their families and youth!No further comment is necessaryGod BlessAlan
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